There was a time when Garry Marshall was an in-demand director of slight-but-popular romantic comedies, granting the world the charms of Hooker Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman and Commitmentphobe Julia Roberts in Runaway Bride. Recent years, however, have seen Marshall falling back on a specific and inexplicably lucrative formula in search of box-office gold. These days, his creative process appears to be: 1) Leaf through his copy of Chicken Soup For The Soul Love Stories: Stories Of First Dates, Soul Mates, And Everlasting Love. 2) Pick 20 actors that America’s moms can either acknowledge by name, or recognize from half-remembered television programming. (Reactions along the lines of “Honey, did you see, McDreamy’s going to be in a movie about Valentine’s Day!” are fine.) 3) Select a holiday. It really does appear to be as simple as that, having already been deftly parodied by 30 Rock via a tone-perfect Martin Luther King Day mock trailer. It’s rather silly, sure. But like the best satire, it’s also not all that far removed from reality, because reality got even weirder last night.

In a development that sounds like a joke we just made up but is in actuality all too real, Marshall has signed on to direct Mother’s Day, the third film in his Holiday Cinematic Universe. Deadline broke the news yesterday evening that Marshall has now set his sights on the holiday celebrating the world’s mothers, and confirmed that Marshall has already laid claim to four bankable stars for his ensemble cast. Mother’s Day will reunite the director with his ’90s muse Julia Roberts, in addition to Kate Hudson, Jennifer Aniston, and the MILFiest MILF of all, Jason Sudeikis. Production has been scheduled to begin in August for a probable release in time for Mother’s Day 2016.

When a plan is as clearly defined and ruthlessly effective as Marshall’s, it’s hard not to discuss him using supervillain terms. (Which, in terms of taste, he arguably is.) And so we at The Dissolve eagerly await the next phase of his world-domination scheme, whatever that might be. Perhaps he’ll follow through on this new project with Father’s Day, though it appears that no observance is off the table for Marshall. There’s a future where principal photography has already begun on Garry Marshall’s Hiroshima Remembrance Day, starring Ken Watanabe, Chris “Ludacris" Bridges, Emma Stone, the ghost of Toshiro Mifune, and a friendly CGI tanuki. Or maybe Garry Marshall’s Passover, with Elijah’s spirit actually present to portray himself. (Possible tagline: “The real seder… was love.”) Or maybe Garry Marshall’s Arbor Day with a cast made up entirely of talking trees, or Garry Marshall’s That One Day A Year Where Chipotle Gives Out Free Burritos, or stirring racial drama Garry Marshall’s Juneteenth, or Pagan-inflected found footage horror film Garry Marshall’s Samhain, or…